VASC Seminar
Julian Panetta
‎PhD Student
New York University

Fine-Scale Structure Design for 3D Printing

Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Bio: Julian Panetta is a PhD candidate at NYU's Courant Institute, where he is advised by Denis Zorin. Julian is interested in simulation and optimal designproblems, specifically focusing on applications for 3D printing. Before joining NYU, he received his BS in computer science from Caltech and did research at NASA's [...]

VASC Seminar
Qixing Huang
Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Austin

Visual Correspondences in the Big Data Era

Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Bio: Qixing Huang is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University and his MS and BSin Computer Science from Tsinghua University. He was a research assistant professor at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago before joining UT Austin. [...]

VASC Seminar
Jiajun Wu
Graduate Student
MIT

Computational Perception of Geometric and Physical Object Properties

Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1507Bio: Jiajun Wu is a third-year Ph.D. student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, advised by Professor Bill Freeman and Professor Josh Tenenbaum. His research interests lie on the intersection of computer vision, machine learning, and computational cognitive science. Before coming to MIT, he received his B.Eng. from Tsinghua University, China, [...]

RI Seminar

Autonomous Intelligent Service Robots: Learning and Explanations in Human-Robot Interaction

1305 Newell Simon Hall

Manuela Veloso Herbert A Simon University Professor, Carnegie Mellon Abstract We research on autonomous mobile robots with a seamless integration of perception, cognition, and action. In this talk, I will first introduce our CoBot service robots and their novel localization and symbiotic autonomy, which enable them to consistently move in our buildings, now for more [...]

RI Seminar

Beyond Geometric Path Planning: Paradigms and algorithms for modern robotics

NSH 1305

Kris Hauser Associate Professor, Duke University Abstract The development of fast randomized algorithms for geometric path planning – computing collision-free paths for high dimensional systems – was a major achievement in the field of motion planning in the 2000's. But since then, recent advances in affordable robot sensors, actuators, and systems have changed the robotics [...]

VASC Seminar

Me Car, You Human: Understanding Human Activity for Intelligent Collaborative Robotic Vehicles

Newell Simon Hall 1507

Eshed Ohn-Bar Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, San Diego Abstract The goal of my research is to develop human-centered algorithms for intelligent and autonomous systems. The research emphasizes modeling the perception, intent, and behavior of humans inside and around a vehicle. Over a decade has passed since the DARPA Grand Challenges, and the way in [...]